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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." William Adams 3.8824 average rating  
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." William Adams 4.6769 average rating  
"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric." Maya Angelou 4.7500 average rating  
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." Aristotle 4.4706 average rating  
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable." Aristotle 4.3333 average rating  
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle 4.6829 average rating  
"All men by nature desire to know." Aristotle 4.3696 average rating  
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self." Aristotle 4.9394 average rating  
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." Jan Ashford 4.5946 average rating  
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." Saint Augustine 4.3571 average rating  
"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down." Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba 4.5000 average rating  
"Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty." Sir Francis Bacon 3.3333 average rating  
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." Sir Francis Bacon 3.5000 average rating  
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." Pearl Bailey 4.2083 average rating  
"Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire." Honoré de Balzac 4.6667 average rating  
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." Alexander Graham Bell 4.8667 average rating  
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." Robert F. Bennett 4.5385 average rating  
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence." William Blake 4.8696 average rating  
"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul." Smiley Blanton 4.6667 average rating  
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable." H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky 4.0000 average rating  
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